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A catalogue of a large and fine collection of books, comprehending above thirty thousand volumes, ancient and modern, in most languages, including the libraries of the Reverend Edward Southwell, rector of Asterby, in Lincolnshire, of William Jones, M.D. and several others. Among other valuable and scarce books, are Hortus Malabaricus, 12 vol. Aristoteles, Du val, 2 vol. Plutarchus, Rualdi, 2 vol. Plato, Ficini Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. Galei Scriptores, 3 vol. Poetæ Græci, H. Steph. Aristophanes, Edit. Princeps Aristophanes, Kusteri, ... Dugdale's baronage - origines - summons - monasticon and continuation by Stephens, 3 vol. - Warwickshire Camden, 2 vol. Royal paper Stukeley's stone henge and abury, 2 vol. Many of the scarce counties Horsley's Britannia Romana Rushworth's collections, 8 vol, L.P. Tanner's Notitia monastica Religious ceremonies, 6 vol. Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Universal history, 23 vol. Chambers's dictionary, 4 vol. Locke, Bacon, Boyle, Selden, &c. Philosophical transactions, 68 vol. Lord Sommers's tracts, 16 vol. Encyclopedie, 50 vol. The books are in good condition, and will begin to be sold, for ready money only, January 1, 1782. By Lockyer Davis, in Holborn; and will continue on sale till all are sold. Catalogues (Price Six-Pence, to be returned in the purchase) may be had of Messrs. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Robson; in New Bond Street; Debret, Piccadilly; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's Street; Owen, Temple Bar; Sewell, in Cornbill; and at the place of sale, where ready money may be had for any Library or parcel of books.
Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791.Date: 1781]- Books
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High-Church: or a vindication of the Reverend Mr. William Richardson, from near an hundred aspersions that are cast upon him, by Mr. John Dunton, in his paradox intituled The preaching weather-cock. But more especially, those of his picking up a Common Whore, -Her boasting of being with Child (as she impudently calls it) of a young Parson, - His hiring of her (as we do Coachmen) by the Hour, - His tempting of her to Perjury, to clear his Innocence, - His giving the Sacrament the next Day, and being Thrice bound to his Good Behaviour, by a Warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice. In which Vindication - The Secret History of his Life, Conversation and Doctrines - is set in a True Light, and his Low-Church and Fanatick Accusers, are characteriz'd and detected. In a letter to Doctor Calamy a Dissenting Minister. To which is added, Killing no Sin, or a Panegyrick upon Mr. William Richardson, for attempting to murder his Wife and Mother (of which they have made Affidavit). With An Apology for his praying several Times of late, that God wou'd bless the Pretender and the Church of Rome. - Also a Relation of the Great Honours that were lately done him at Oxford and Cambridge, where (at the Request of the Vice-Chancellour) he preach'd a most excellent Sermon to that University.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1712- Books
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Jachin and Boaz; or, an authentic key to the door of free-masonry, Both Ancient and Modern. Calculated not only for the instruction of every new-made mason; but also for the information of all who intend to become brethren. Containing, I. A circumstantial Account of all the Proceedings in making a Mason, with the several Obligations of an Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master; the Prayers and also the Sign, Grip, and Pass-Word of each Degree, with the Ceremony of the Mop and Pad. II. The Manner of opening a Lodge, and setting the Craft to work. III. The Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master's Lectures, verbatim, as delivered in all Lodges; with the Song at the Conclusion of each Part. IV. The Origin of Masonry; Description of Solomon's Temple; History of the Murder of the Grand Master Hiram by the three Fellow-Crafts; their Discovery and Punishment; the Burial of Hiram by King Solomon's Order; with the Five Points of Fellowship, &c. V. The Ceremony of the Instalment of the Master of different Lodges on St. John's Day. - Description of the Regalia, &c. VI. Ceremonies used at the Funeral of a Mason. Vii. A safe and easy Method proposed, by which a Man may obtain Admittance into any Lodge, without passing through the Form required, and thereby save a Guinea or two in his Pocket. Viii. Anthems, Odes, Songs, &c. Illustrated with A Beautiful Frontispiece of the Regalia, Jewels, and Emblematical Ornaments belonging to Masonry, and An Accurate Plan of the Drawing on the Floor of a Lodge. Interspersed with Variety of notes and remarks, Necessary to explain and render the Whole clear to the meanest Capacity. To which is now added, a new and accurate list of all the English regular lodges in the world, according to their Seniority, with the Dates of each Constitution, and Days of Meeting. By a gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem lodge; a frequent Vintor at the Queen's Arms, St. Paul's Church-Yard; the Horn, in Fleet-Street; Crown and Anchor, Strand; and the Salutation, Newgate-Street.
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The new book of martyrs; or Complete Christian martyrology. Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, Papists, and others. From the earliest ages of the church, to the present period. Including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the martyrdom of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other primitive Christians. The ten great persecutions under the Roman emperors. The persecutions in Persia, under Sapores; and the persecutions under the Arian vandals. - The horrid persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France; the persecutions in Germany and Poland; the cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia; and the martyrdoms in Italy ... A full account of all the English martyrdoms, particularly those in the times of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, wherein are amply displayed all the butcheries, barbarities, tortures, and cruelties, exercised by the Papists against the Protestants, in the reigns of that tyrannical King, and bloody Queen ... The late persecutions in France against the Calas Family, &c. With a sketch of the martyrdom of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world; ... The whole interspersed with accounts of several singular judgments against persecutors, a great variety of original anecdotes, and many curious memoirs; forming, at once, a complete history of persecutions, and a biography of martyrs. ... By the reverend Henry Southwell, LL.D. late of Magdalen College, Cambridge; rector of Asterby in Lincolnshire, and author of the universal family Bible.
Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 1730-1779.Date: [1785?]- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine library of John Watson Reed, Esq. F. S. A. Late of Ely-Place, deceased, containing, amongst other curious articles, Shakespeare's Works, first Edition-Many of Shakespeare's Plays, the Original Quarto Editions,-Domesday Book, 2 vol. - several of the English County Histories-Madox's Works,-Dufresne, Carpentier, Skinner, Spelman, Junius and Chambers's Dictionaries-Hearne, Byrne and Watts's Views-a Receipt for Boydell's Edition of Shakespeare, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction by J. Egerton, Bookseller, At the room in Scotland Yard, on Monday, March 1st, 1790, And the following Day. To be viewed on Saturday, February 27th, and to the Sale, which will begin each Day punctually at Twelve O'Clock. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. L. Davis, Holborn; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Sewell, Cornhill; and of Messrs. Egerton, Whitehall.
Egerton, John, -1795.Date: 1790]- Books
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Hume's History of England, with Portraits. On Saturday, May 2, will be Published, Price one shilling, (to be continued Weekly till the whole is completed) No I. Containing Six Sheets of Letter-Press, and a Head of the Author engraved by Collyer, of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. By David Hume, Esq; With the Author's last Corrections and Improvements. Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and sold by T. Longman, No. 39, Paternoster-Row. Conditions. I. The Work will make Eight Volumes in Octavo, handsomely printed on a large Letter and on a Medium Paper. II. Each Number will contain Five or more Sheets, so that the whole may not exceed Forty-Eight Numbers, at One Shilling each. III. In the course of the Work will be given a series of Portraits of the different Sovereigns of England from the Conquest to the Revolution, engraved from original Pictures by Hall, Sherwin, Heath, Collyer, &c. &c. and ornamented with new emblematical Designs by Stothard. IV. In the course of publication will be given an Account of the Life of the Author written by Himself, and a copious Index. V. Most of the Plates are already finished, and Specimens of the Print, Paper, and Engravings, may be seen at the Publisher's. - In order to form a complete History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Second, the Proprietors intend to publish, immediately after Mr. Hume's History is completed, in Weekly Numbers, Dr. Smollett's History from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second; and that the Paper, Print, and Portraits shall in every respect correspond with the above Work.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.Date: 1782]- Books
Crafting immunity : working histories of clinical immunology / edited by Kenton Kroker, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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Jachin and Boaz; or, an authentic key to the door of free-masonry, Both Antient and Modern. Calculated not only for the instruction of every new-made mason; but also for the information of all who intend to become brethren. Containing, I. A circumstantial Account of all the Proceedings in making a Mason, with the several Obligations of an Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master; the Prayers, and also the Sign, Grip, and Pass-Word of each Degree, with the Ceremony of the Mop and Pail. II. The Manner of opening a Lodge, and setting the Craft to work. III. The Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master's Lectures, verbatim, as delivered in all Lodges; with the Song at the Conclusion of each Part. IV. The Origin of Masonry; Description of Solomon's Temple; History of the Murder of the Grand Master Hiram by the three Fellow-Crafts; their Discovery and Punishment; the Burial of Hiram by King Solomen's Order; with the Five Points of Fellowship, &c. V. The Ceremony of the Instalment of the Master of different Lodges on St. John's Day. - Description of the Regalia, &c. VI. Ceremonies used at the Funeral of a Mason. Vii. A safe and easy Method proposed, by which a Man may obtain Admittance into any Lodge, without passing through the Form required, and thereby save a Guinea or two in his Pocket. Viii. Anthems, Odes, Songs, &c. Illustrated with A Beautiful Frontispiece of the Regalia, Jewels, and Emblematical Ornaments belonging to Masonry, and An Accurate Plan of the Drawing on the Floor of a Lodge. Interspersed with Variety of Notes and Remarks, Necessary to explain and render the Whole clear to the meanest Capacity. To which is now added, a new and accurate list of all the English regular lodges in the world, according to their Seniority, with the Dates of each Constitution, and Days of Meeting. By a gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem lodge; a frequent Visitor at the Queen's Arms, St. Paul's Church-Yard; the Horn, in Fleet-Street; Crown and Anchor, Strand; and the Salutation, Newgate-Street.
R. S.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A catalogue of near twenty thousand volumes, of the best books in all parts of learning, in Greek, Latin, French, Italian and English: Containing several curious libraries, lately purchased. Amongst which are the following: Folio. Clarendon's Hist. and Life, 4 vol. L. P. Heads of illust. Men, L. P. 1st Impress. State Tryals, 8 vol. Whitlocke's Memorials, best edit. Madoxe's Exchequer and Index, 2 v. Turkey Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Hogarth's Works, compleat. Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Gibson's Cambden, 2 vol. Horseley's Britannia Romana Stukeley's Itinerary Temple's Works, 2 vol. l. paper Chauncy's Hertfordshire Platonis Opera, Gr. Lat. Serrani, 3 t. Polybius Casauboni Euripides, Barnesii Plutarch, Xylandri, 2 tom. Demosthenes, Wolsii Josephus Havercampi, 2 tom. Diodor. Siculus, Wesseling. 2 tom. Dion Cassius, Reimari, 2 tom. Aristophanes, Kusteri Athenaeus, Casauboni Pausanias, Khunii Louvre Classics, 4 vol. Turkey Boyle's Works, 5 vol. Bacon's Works, 3 vol. L. P. in Russia Harris's Voyages, by Campbell, 2 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Pocock's Travels, 2 vol. Russia Folio. Antiquit. par Montsaucon, 15 t. gr. pap. L'art de Gueire, par Puysegur, 2 t. Par. Davila Hist Civil di Francia, 2 t. Dictionaries, viz Ainsworth, 2 v. Bayle, 5 v -General, 10 v -Postlethwayte, 2 v. -Chambers and Suppl 4 vol. -Johnson, 2 v -Calmet, 3 vol. - Miller's-Bailey by Scott-Somner's Saxon-Davis's Welch. Golii Lex Arab Du Fresne Glossar. Lat. 6 t. Cor. Russ. Pitischi Lex Antiq Roman. 2 t. Hoffmanni Lexic 4 tom. Dictionnaire de Bayle, 5 tom. Par. -de Morreri, 8 tom. ... Russ. -de Richelet, 3 tom. - de Menage, 2 tom. Diccionar Castellena, 6 tom. Vocabolario della Crusea, 6 tom. Clarke's Works, 4 vol L. P. Russia The same, 4 vol. sin. pap. Taylor's Heb. Concordance, 2 vol. Cay's Statutes at Large, 6 vol. - Abridg. Statutes, 2 vol. Mac Dowal's Institutes. 3 vol. Coke's Institutes, 2 vol. best Peere Williams, 3 vol. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. Hill's Nat. History, 3 vol. Hippocrates et Galen, a Charterii, cum sig. 13 tom. Medicae Artis Principes, 2 tom. Which will be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday, Feb. 11, 1760, and continue on Sale till Lady-Day. By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6 d) at the following Booksellers, viz. Mr. Ward's, Cornhill; H. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Owen, Temple-Bar; Robson (late Brindley's) New Bond-Steet; Jackson, St. James's-Street; Walter, Charing-Cross; Mess. Merril's and Matthews at Cambridge; at Child's Coffee-House, St. Paul's Church yard; and at the Place of Sale.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1760]- Books
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C. Parker's new catalogue, of a fine collection of books, particularly of the history and antiquities, of this and foreign countries; Among others, are Folio. Crozat's Prints, 2 vol. Rossi's Statues Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vol. Luxembourg Gallery De Lisle's Atlas Prynne's Constitution of Eng. 3 vol. Monasticon, per Dugdale, 3 vol. - Ditto English & Origines Jurid. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. Rapin and Tindal's Hist. of Eng. 5 vol. Camden's Britannia, 2 vol. best edit. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum Maitland's London, 2 vol. Stow's London, 2 vol. Philpot's Kent Morant's Essex, 2 vol. lar. and sm. pap. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, lar. and sm. pap. Morton's Northamptonshire Dugdale's Warwickshire Coker's Dorsetshire Leicester's Cheshire Drake's York Prince's Worthies of Devon Peck's Hist. of Stamford Thorpe's Hist. of Rochester Parkyns's Kings Lynn Dart's Canterbury and York Higden's Polychronicon Fructus Temporum Carew of Elections-Wood's Athaenae Bacon's Abridgment of the Law, 5 vol. Thurloe's, Burleigh's, Sydney's, Strafford's, Roe's, Ormond's, &c. State Papers Fox's Martyrs, best edit. 3 vol. Blair's Chronology Raleigh's Hist. of the World, 2 vol. Churchill's, Harris's, Pococke's, Harleian, Hackluyt's, Frier's, Tavernier's, Wheler's, Drummond's, Chishull's, &c. Voyages and Travels Royal Commentaries of Peru Mariana's Hist. of Spain Ducarel's Ang. Norman Antiquities System of Geography, 2 vol. Hist. Romanae Scriptores, 3 vol. Camdeni Anglica, Normanica, &c. Chambers's Dictionary, 4 vol. Johnson's, Postlethwayte's, &c. Dictionary Scapulae Lexicon, edit. opt. Anderson of Commerce, 2 vol. Holland's Pliny-Uiry's Chaucer Hanbury's Gardening, 2 v. - Gerard's Herbal Guillim's Heraldry, best edit. Gibbs's Designs, lar. pap. Porcell's Orpheus Britain. Locke, Hobbes, &c. Quarto. Magna Britannia, II vol. Dr. Campbell's Survey of Britain, 2 vol. Grose's Antiquities, 2 vol. Hume and Macaulay's Hist. Lyttelton's Hen II. and Works, 5 vol. Robertson's Cha. V. and Scotland, 5 vol. Blackstone's Comment. and Tracts, 5 vol. Walpole's Painters, 4 vol. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vol. Hawkesworth's, Parkynson's, Bougainville's, Anson's, Phipps's, Ives's, &c. Voyages Hist. of Jamaica, 3 vol. Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol. Albin's Birds and Infects, 4 vol. Ames on Printing-Dale's Harwich Milton, Pope, Locke, Bacon, Swift. Addison, Boyle, Bolingbroke, Middleton, Spenser, &c. Parl. Hist. and Debates, 65 vol. Svo. Universal History, 65 vol. 8vo. Which will be selling the 25th instant, and continue daily, At the Prices printed in the Catalogue; by C. Parker, Bookseller, The Upper Part of New Bond-Street. Where the atmost Value is given for any Library or Parcel of Books; Also Books Exchanged. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Owen, within Temple-Bar; Mr. E. Johnson, in Ave-Maria Lane; Mess. Woodfall and Co. at Charing-Cross; Mr. Davenhill, opposite the Royal Exchange; Mr. Fletcher, at Oxford; and Mess. Merrill's, at Cambridge. 1775.
Parker, Charles, bookseller.Date: 1775]- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Archives and manuscripts
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Articella and other tracts
Date: 12th century - 14th centuryReference: MS.801A- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Pictures
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A holy man with two tigers. Watercolour drawing, 186- (?).
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]Reference: 35366i- Archives and manuscripts
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Livre des simples médecines, in French
Date: c. 1470Reference: MS.626